Ok there are two constant issues I’m seeing in the comment section so I'll address it here rather than spending Christmas replying to each individual comment. 1. Daniel Sterns scream A lot of comments are saying I’m wrong and the scream was put in post, but I’m just going by Daniel Stern’s own mouth where he says he was told to scream as the spider wouldn’t be able to hear him where he gave off a scream like “Psycho” but hey don’t take my word for it, it’s on UKposts, in a documentary called The Making of Home Alone. Here is the link: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/o2VyoqeMro-i04U.html skip to 13:24 of that video to hear Stern talk about the scream he did then hopefully that’ll put some of the commenters at ease. 2. Oh you obviously watched The Movies that made us Yes I did use ‘The Movies that made us’ as a resource as I did with other documentaries and articles and websites for this episode, how else am I meant to do research?? I even mentioned ‘the Movies that made us’ at the end and said it was a great help to making this video and recommended it to Home Alone fans. I think some people seem to think it’s a bad thing that I saw it to do some research but then if the fans don’t agree with you get accused of doing no research. Point is you just can’t win in the harsh realm of the comment section. I hope this has cleared some issues up, take care peoples and Merry Christmas. I hope all your wishes and dreams come true and you get cool pressies.

As a kid I always thought that Kevin was a bad kid. Now as an adult I realize that his family was super dysfunctional, he was constantly being gaslight and he was the family black sheep.

Every time I order a pizza I feel obligated to say "Keep the change ya filthy animal"

"I wouldn't let you sleep in my room if you were growing on my aSs" One of the best lines in cinema.

I heard somewhere that the scream during the tarantula scene was later dubbed in because screaming would have freaked the spider out and caused it to bite, so he pretended to scream and then recorded the real scream in the studio, in which they later put in the scene.

"Did you know that the McAllister's are going to France? Do you know if it's cold there? Do these vans get good gas mileage? How fast does this thing go? Does it have automatic transmission? Does it have four wheel drive?"

Both Home Alone 1 and 2 along with A Christmas Story are my three favorite Christmas films. I absolutely can't get enough of these films that I watch to lift my spirits up during the Christmas season.

It was good seeing John Candy and Catherine O'Hara together in the scenes they were in. For those not familiar, they had previously worked together in the late 70s and early 80s on the Canadian sketch comedy show "SCTV". That show also produced talents like Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis, and Martin Short.

Home Alone deserve a spot in an indestructible vault that houses all the worlds greatest accomplishments. This movie never gets old!

One of the coolest details about this movie is that almost every song John Williams wrote for this movie became a holiday classic and can now be found on Christmas Pandora stations. Imagine being so good that you can write more than one Christmas classic in one movie. Unbelievable.

I heard they're remaking Home Alone, there's no need to the original is just as magical today as it ever was. Also people have cell phones today it wouldn't work.

Home alone is one of the best Christmas movies of all time 👍🏾👍🏾

It says in the movie that Kevin's Father's Brother, who lives in Paris paid for the whole trip...so there answers the Paris cousins question.

This was definitely one of the best movies ever!

Daniel Stern deserves an oscar just for doing the scene with the tarantula.

That background actor literally looks absolutely nothing like Elvis, but okay.

These two movies HOME ALONE 1 & 2 and CHRISTMAS VACATION along with some of the OLD Classics are ABSOLUTE STAPLES at our home during the holiday season.

I still want to know what the Mccallister's did for a living to live in a big house with all those kids and afford to pay for the whole family to vacation in Paris 🤔😂

I loved this movie and saw this in theaters back in good old 1990. I can't believe this film is almost 30 years old

A few years ago I wrote a Home Alone 3. It’s set in 2018 and Kevin is house sitting for his parents at Christmas. The wet bandits are released from prison and come for Kevin. Only for the house to be targeted by another gang. Kevin, Harry and Marv actually team up to repel the other thrives. Oh and at one point Kevin watches ‘Angels with the filthiest souls’ starring Johnny’s son. Kevin quips “the third one is always the worst”

“Allow me to introduce myself. Gus Polinski…..Polka King of the Midwest?"

Bonnie Bedelia, Holly from Die Hard, is Macaulay Culkin's aunt.

Man imagine being the guy at Warner Brothers that walked away from this monster

“Keep the change, ya filthy animal!” The tradition of John Hughes films being shot in school gymnasiums actually stems back to the film shoot for The Breakfast Club, whose jaw-dropping library setting for 85% of the story was assembled in a different school building in the Chicagoland area. Sort of like a distant genetic tie. I was slightly disappointed that this nugget of info wasn’t included here.

I haven't seen anyone address the fact that Kevin doesn't have a Room.

I'm 33 today and, as young as I was back then, I still remember going to see this in 1990 and "Batman" in 1989.

The Uncle in that film was a real arsehole too...no way as a father would I let me brother treat my kid like that. Alas, it was "just a movie."

"Look what ya did ya little jerk" - Uncle Frank

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Home Alone Sega Genesis game

One fact left out was that Fuller was played by Macaulay Culkin's younger brother, Kieran Culkin

I want someone to make a real Angels with Filthy Souls movie.

Cinemassacre's Home Alone game review was amazing with Caulkin showing up delivering a pizza. I'll toss another plug for 'Lifeforce' out there too.

"Angels With Filthy Souls" can even be seen being played in a scene from the movie "Pokémon: Detective Pikachu". ;D

Thank you Minty!!! Wow, I never would've guessed that Buzz's girlfriend was a guy!! Lol! I always thought the pic was of an actual girl! Also, lol, no wonder I've never been able to find Angels with Filthy Souls, since I started binging on classic golden era films! Cause it doesn't exist, lol. It definitely fooled me, as I always thought it was footage from an actual 1930s/1940s style gangster flick!

The boy who played Kevin's cousin Fuller is Macaulay Culkin's brother Kieran. Macaulay Culkin drew the map that his character uses to set up the traps. Macaulay Culkin's stunt double was a very short 30-year-old man. Director Chris Columbus' biggest fear as a kid was burglars. It's part of why he wanted to make this movie At the end of the movie where it snows outside Kevin's house, the snow was actually mashed potato flakes. Little Nero's Pizza is a parody of Little Caesar's Pizza. Caesar and Nero are famous names in Roman history. The ornaments on which Marv steps were actually candy.

Macaulays brother is also in the film. He plays his younger brother.

If "The Irishman" Joe Peshi had taken on Kevin, this would have been a 10 minute movie

My son was born in 1990 and discovered this film at a very young age. We both know the lines off by heart as at one stage he watched it so many times a day it drove me mad but it is a great film. Thank you for doing this, brought back some great memories of my boy when he was younger and so sweet.

You forgot to mention that the scene when Marv gets electrocuted is one of the most used memes of all time. Daniel Stern is a living meme legend.

I still love these movies and they don't fail to make me laugh.

Minty do HOME ALONE 2

Seems like everything John Hughes did was a hit.

I was wondering where I heard that music before. Then I realized, it's from Kerbal Space Program! :-)

To me, when Kevin's mom did the incredible journey to see Kevin, it inspired the greatest reality show The Amazing Race

I saw this in the movie theater outside my malls parking lot with my younger cousin. Still love it at age 41. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Any time I need a good laugh, I always watch home alone. The wet bandits scenes where they get mauled by Kevin, always makes me laugh, no matter how many times I see it! 😂

13:43 Stern has the best scream. Who else agrees?

the theory people have come out with that kevin is jiggsaw is pretty fun read

Merry Christmas Minty!

I think it's a real shame John Hughes cut the scene which the family in Paris are sleepless and are worried about Kevin except for Buzz. It should had been kept in the movie and it shows that the family all feel really bad about the way they all treated Kevin and it also shows that Buzz really doesn't give a shit about Kevin.

Peter and Frank's brother Rob and sister-in-law Georgette live in Paris, their daughter Heather was the one counting the kids in front of the vans. This is my FAVORITE Christmas movie ever, and I watch twenty-four hours of A Christmas Story every year since TNT and TBS started doing that! I like the conversation Kate and John Candy have when he says he left his kid at a funeral parlor, when he says "But he's okay, y'know, six or seven weeks he came around, started talking again" really cracks my mom up:) I like bits of the sequel but I wish they had made Tim Curry the one Kevin bonded with and that he had told the hotel workers what happened so they have no choice but to keep him at the Plaza and give him everything he wants because the cops tell them to until Peter and Kate get there as well as because the McCallisters are rich:)

Marv “He’s going to call the cops!” Harry “From a treehouse!” That’s one of my favorite lines

The cousin that pees in the bed is his biological brother lol.

I remember what a huge hit this movie was. I loved this movie so much, still do. My 6 year old goes nuts over this movie when it plays on tv.

It was Kevin’s father’s brother and his family who was living in Paris with his wife they paid for the trip for them all to go. He’s also the one who owns the empty apartment in New York in the second one.

There is a really good deleted scene with Harry and Marv singing their own version of "Santa Claus is coming to town" about themselves. I also watch these old movies with great sadness when I think of John Candy. He was such a talented and under rated actor. When I watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles I never even think of Del as John Candy because he's so deep in the role.

4:55 The best male comedy teams have always been One Tall, One Short

Love the first two Home Alone films.

The Elvis guy has been confirmed that it is an actual extra who is used in several other movies and shows and not Elvis. The scream with the spider was added in after the scene. He didn't actually scream while they filmed the spider on his face in order to not scare the spider.

This was one of my favorite movies growing up. I still watch it every few years.

I heard that the boy who plays fuller is actually Maculy Culkins younger brother.

Absolutely love this film. One of my favourites as a kid.

I always wanted to see Kevin's wet/sticky bandit "traps" tested on Mythbusters; to see which are merely painful, and perhaps which could actually be deadly in real life. Break out the human analogs and the CT scanner and see what happens when a human skull meets a matched velocity paint can, or bricks thrown downward (repeatedly) from 60 ft., or a blow torch for the same number of seconds. How does a body hold up when it falls from a duplicated number of feet on to it's back, or mashed by 300 lbs. of tools against a wall. I've seen Home Alone 1 & 2 shown on network TV with some of the traps rather severely edited.

"Angels with Filthy Souls" shows up in Detective Pikachu

Rip John candy and the father. Also to the old man that was accused of killing his family alone with older couple in the airport.

Another quick note that I heard somewhere: At times Joe Pesci forgot he was in a family comedy, and would occasionally drop F-bombs. Because of this, he supposedly came up with that muttering thing he did in both this movie and in Home Alone 2 to try to refrain from dropping them as frequently. Also, along with his appearance being a favor to John Hughes, John Candy also improvised almost all of his lines.

Love Home Alone and watch it every year around Christmas. The 2nd one was good too. Bought the soundtrack to Home Alone it is so good! Merry Christmas! 🎄👍😍

I can't believe people didn't believe The film Angels with Filthy Souls was made strictly for the movie. The one, two, ten guy was in The Blues Brothers as a dispatch worker and Code of Silence with Chuck Norris

3:27, RIP, Hughes.

Also Angels with Filthy Souls was shown in Detective Pikachu.

the ending of the film was once brought up in an episode of Seinfeld -- it's really saying something that even someone as bitter & cynical as George could be moved by Old Man Marley reuniting with his family

Could you do Escape From L.A. as you have already covered the first one? 😎

I was watching this movie last night,still a awesome movie.

Hey Minty, how about doing one on the movie City Slickers? Just a thought, unless you’ve done it already.

I remember a joke in Dogma where Salma Hayek states that Home Alone’s box office numbers were the result of a Faustian deal.

Merry Christmas from California, Minty! Thank you for your channel; discovering it has brightened my year. Cheers, mate!

Fun fact, early on in the movie when Peter hands Kate a voltage adapter, the adapter is actually played by Macaulay Culkin.

You're wrong Minty the scream was dubbed in because they was worried that it would cause the spider to bite. The actor also said that he is only doing one take and he said that he had to move his mouth to make it look like he was screaming.

Home alone was-is and will be one of the greatest christmas special we all going to love,a couple of days back i saw again with my brother the second film! It became a tradition every christmas to see those films like gremlins christmas vacation etc! Really interesting you also mentioned the movies that made us as well,after the toys that made us i want to see those documentaries as well! Nice going once more minty the man thanks for sharing,and merry christmas to all of you out there from lovely greece!

John Williams is one of my Favorite Composers!!!

13:43 The fact that the scream was legit makes it more funnier than before 😂

I'm relatively new to your output and I'm blown away, absolutely superb, properly brilliant. Thank you and Happy New Year from Steven in England.

Chicagoan here. I took a drive up to Winnetka to look at the Christmas lights this past weekend. The home alone house looks a lot smaller in real life. Still pretty cool though.

Number two with the spider, that scream actually isn't legit. During filming that scene he couldn't make a sound in fear of scaring the tarantula and it reacting and attacking. So they edited the sound of him screaming in later.

I still want to know what Kevin's parents did for a living that they could afford that mansion of a house.

Minty should have combined this for "20 things you didnt know about home alone"

Merry Christmas and a happy new year Minty! Looking forward to another year of movie trivia. Keep up the good work!

6:35, that was a pretty good choice! Williams does give it the whole slapstick vibe, and then makes it more Christmasy.

Minty it's 6 a.m. bro I'm supposed to be asleep but I'll watch your video.

I have some interesting facts you might enjoy. The Home Alone house, John Hughes asked to use for Uncle Buck and the owner said no. Then he asked for Christmas Vacation and she said no. For Home Alone, her door bell rang and it was John Hughes on his knees begging her to use it for the movie and she finally said yes. My source is the homeowner at the time. My buddy went to New Trier. She gave me two onset photos. One with them spraying potato flakes as snow. Daniel Stern's scream didn't happen, he silently did that to not scare the spider. Your videos are so great!

Grandma and Grandpa Corteville had a vhs copy of both films and I watched the hell out of them while staying at there house over the years

Daniel Stern didn't scream because it would have scared the spider. He mimed screaming and the sound was added in post production.

Spiders do not have stingers they have fangs

3. It also appears in "Detective Pikachu" where Tim enters his father's apartment. One you didn't mention: John Mulaney was invited to audition as some CDs working on the film sat in on his children's acting class, but his parents decided against it. He's okay with it now, and has become famous on his own.

Trivia: In the original draft of the screenplay, it was revealed Harry and Marv are working for Uncle Frank and Uncle Frank hired them to rob the house and also to kill Kevin. There was a scene that was filmed and cut which Uncle Frank calls Kevin "Yank" and cruelly humiliates Kevin by pulling Kevin's trousers down.

@13:20 There’s an issue with this statement, that he screamed with the tarantula on his face. The scream, is real. But, was recorded & added post-production. Because, had he screamed like that & that loudly. The scream would have frightened/scared the tarantula. Causing it to bite him, on the face! Therefore, the scene was filmed silently, with Daniel Stern acting out a scream. Scream was later recorded & edited in, post-production.

The best christmas movie EVER!!! 10/10!!! Home Alone 2 was also good, but not that good. Let's say 7/10. But anything after that (3,4,5,6?) was bullshit..........

Just when you thought their souls couldn't get any filthier.

The McAllister's house was filmed in someone's family home. Not even that, but the family was still living in the house when they were filming the movie

I can't believe Candy got paid so little!! He was such a great cameo!!